This ambitious project began in a COVID year and despite lots of challenges, our excellent collaborative team was able to obtain spatio-temporal dataset for field samples. Thanks to Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research for providing funding support!

Interaction Between Climatic Variation and Pathogen Diversity Shape Endemic Disease Dynamics in the Agricultural Settings Endemic pathogens continue to pose threats of recurring outbreaks, especially in agricultural settings. How these outbreaks unfold and what drives the variability in disease epidemics is less underst....

Very excited to see this work published and proud of all the hard work by our graduate students on this project! We applied high-resolution shotgun metagenomics and modeling to link pathogen diversity and climatic shifts to inform how bacterial disease plays out in the field. doi.org/10.1111/mec....

New in Mol. Ecol.: integrating multiple data and methods, we show how seasonal fluctuations in pathogen strain composition, diversity and their climate-influenced fitness play a significant role in shaping severity and variability of bacterial disease outbreaks doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PlantHealth

We are hiring! www.auemployment.com/postings/52163 anyone recently graduated/soon to graduate postbac researchers looking for opportunities in computational biology are welcome to reach out to us.

Very excited that this work is out now. Interesting to find short-term (within single season) changes in the pathogen population as it adapts to the resistant cultivar and under altered climatic conditions.